I was two pages away from thinking, "What the hell was Scipio talking about?"

Then I read it.

He is so right. Anyone who can read that and not be moved has something seriously wrong with them.

Just goes to show you that there are no stories more touching than those of a boy and his dog.

That said, his abbreviated Happy post does mean a failure to acknowledge the reappearance of a certain Rolling Head of Pantha, plus Mrs. Reyes, kicking ass, taking names and looking hot in surgical scrubs. Both of which combined with Krypto's heroics to make my comic book week.

Oh my, I think I just had the best laugh of the week, from Ambush Bug page 8, panel 6 (with a drunk Golden Age Lois Lane berating her husband.) Might need to use a magnifying glass or squint real hard....

Being a dog lover and reading this post...this makes me afraid to read about Krypto. My emotions ran wild when Wonder Dog mauled Wendy and Marvin, I don't think I can take what you guys are hinting at with Krypto...let alone any dog.

I don't get this book, but my friend promised to let me borrow it...but now I am dreading asking after reading these :( Maybe I will just ask him to tell me...it will take the sting out of it I think.

I have to confess...I went to the comic book store last night to get my weekly comics and they had none of Superman #680...sold out. So at first I breathed a sigh of relief that I wouldn't get to know what happened. Then I bucked up and ask the girl behind the counter if she could like in someone else's pull list so I can just look at it and finally get to know what everyone was talking about...I told her about this blog and what was said and she just looked at me like I had three heads or perhaps that I was Kypto himself...who knows. Anyway she let me look at someone else's copy but continued to gab my ear off so I could not actually read it...I did see the ending and I am very happy it was not what I feared...I gave the book back and now will wait until my friend let's me borrow his so I can see why I am supposed to cry as I couldn't get involved in it with this girl yakking my ear off. LOL

Weird. I love Superman, I love Krypto, and I love The Absorbascon, and yet I hated this issue (and all the others in this arc) with a passion. If anything about it was going to make me cry, it'd be that it was so awful, and that Robinson's awfulness will now be crossing over with Johns' greatness on a monthly basis.

Sure. I just don't think that Robinson has a particularly good handle on Superman or Lois at this point, and I find his dialogue and captions to be painfully awkward.

Honestly, Robinson's Superman seems like kind of an idiot. At the very least, he's a bully. Specifically, I hated the way he spoke to Zachary and to the citizens of Metropolis at the end of the book. Very arrogant, ignorant and patronising... admittedly very Golden Age (hardly a surprise with Robinson, no?), but very much at odds with Johns' work in 'Action'.

I recognise there are different ways of portraying Superman, and that's fine, but this isn't one I want to read about. On its own merits, I could just avoid it every month and that'd be fine, but I'm worried about how it will affect Johns' run now that the books will be crossing over on a regular basis.